Day Two - The Course of True Love
March 25, 2020
Escolástica here. Google guardian of three lovely boys: Gabriel, Florentino, and Juvenal. Aged 17, 15 and 13 respectively.
On Day Two of our ‘continuous learning’ journey we crossed with mortality and the gravity of the times.
“People are going to die, aren’t they?” said Tino. “People we know.” Perhaps we’ve just been lucky so far.
Conversation segued to building a program that ensures grandparents hear from at least one of us each day. Teenage boys. Insensitive at times, but with big hearts right where we need them to be.
Juvie delighted his grandmother over the phone, explaining for her the tumbling shifting intimate and amusing intricacies of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Talking to Nanna served to warm him up for his summative, an open-book test on AMSND. His teacher suggested it would take an hour. He was into a third before finally deciding his answers weren’t getting any better. From there, onto maths.
Our home school day only starts at 10am, but Florentino was busy at his desk by 9. With summative assignments due week’s end in two subjects, he was getting the daily work out of the way early before hoeing into the meaty stuff.
I am worried for Gabriel. He’s in his final year of school, working hard towards the best result he can achieve. A few days ago the authorities pulled the rug from under him, suggesting it might be impossible to grade this year’s graduating class. Today they determined exams proceed as scheduled. We can only wait and see. Gabe has handled it calmly, comforting himself that he and all his cohort are in the same boat. He continues to study this week, following his own program after school told him to take it easy while they reposition theirs.
Exercise time! Juvie headed for the tennis courts, Tino for a run.
Gabe asked to go out to exercise with his girl. They often exercise together. Given the likelihood of a lockdown separating the lovers indefinitely, given his mature response to these trying times, and of course given my longstanding facilitation of the coming together of youth, I let him go. And trust I will not regret it.
While surgical masks, ventilators, even toilet paper may be in short supply, we face no shortage of continuous learning resources. A bigger issue will be safeguarding the wellbeing of our children and ourselves while making proper use of those resources in the weeks and months to come.
Alignment between school and home continues. By day’s end I had a daily Google Classroom summary for both the younger boys, a workaround for a technical problem with ManageBac, and a Zoom invite to the P&C meeting scheduled for tonight.
Looking forward to your company again tomorrow.
Aunt Escolástica
Escolástica here. Google guardian of three lovely boys: Gabriel, Florentino, and Juvenal. Aged 17, 15 and 13 respectively.
On Day Two of our ‘continuous learning’ journey we crossed with mortality and the gravity of the times.
“People are going to die, aren’t they?” said Tino. “People we know.” Perhaps we’ve just been lucky so far.
Conversation segued to building a program that ensures grandparents hear from at least one of us each day. Teenage boys. Insensitive at times, but with big hearts right where we need them to be.
Juvie delighted his grandmother over the phone, explaining for her the tumbling shifting intimate and amusing intricacies of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Talking to Nanna served to warm him up for his summative, an open-book test on AMSND. His teacher suggested it would take an hour. He was into a third before finally deciding his answers weren’t getting any better. From there, onto maths.
Our home school day only starts at 10am, but Florentino was busy at his desk by 9. With summative assignments due week’s end in two subjects, he was getting the daily work out of the way early before hoeing into the meaty stuff.
I am worried for Gabriel. He’s in his final year of school, working hard towards the best result he can achieve. A few days ago the authorities pulled the rug from under him, suggesting it might be impossible to grade this year’s graduating class. Today they determined exams proceed as scheduled. We can only wait and see. Gabe has handled it calmly, comforting himself that he and all his cohort are in the same boat. He continues to study this week, following his own program after school told him to take it easy while they reposition theirs.
Exercise time! Juvie headed for the tennis courts, Tino for a run.
Gabe asked to go out to exercise with his girl. They often exercise together. Given the likelihood of a lockdown separating the lovers indefinitely, given his mature response to these trying times, and of course given my longstanding facilitation of the coming together of youth, I let him go. And trust I will not regret it.
While surgical masks, ventilators, even toilet paper may be in short supply, we face no shortage of continuous learning resources. A bigger issue will be safeguarding the wellbeing of our children and ourselves while making proper use of those resources in the weeks and months to come.
Alignment between school and home continues. By day’s end I had a daily Google Classroom summary for both the younger boys, a workaround for a technical problem with ManageBac, and a Zoom invite to the P&C meeting scheduled for tonight.
Looking forward to your company again tomorrow.
Aunt Escolástica
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